International School of Louisiana Board of Trustees

Minutes

Strategic Planning Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Monday October 15, 2018 at 6:00 PM

Location

1400 Camp Street, Room 201

Committee Members Present

E. Thomas, H. Kirk, H. Rodgers iv, L. Muetzel, M. Tennyson, S. Chapman, Y. Zaitseva McCloskey

Committee Members Absent

F. Smith, G. Ligon, M. Alexander

I. Opening Items

A.

Call the Meeting to Order

H. Rodgers iv called a meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee of International School of Louisiana Board of Trustees to order on Monday Oct 15, 2018 at 6:11 PM.

B.

Record Attendance and Guests

II. Strategic Planning

A.

Board Engagement Check-In

Remember to login to BoardOnTrack, RSVP to meetings, download packets, and attend committee and Board meetings.  After the third meeting of the full Board, we should have met our first engagement goal.

B.

365 days from now

Enrollment totals are expected to peak within the next two to three years, depending on attrition rates. At that time, the Uptown classrooms that are currently being used for the Head of School's office space, counseling space, etc... will be needed for instructional space, meaning the Head of School's staff will need to move into other office space.

Some options are to move into commercial/office space near one of our campuses, purchase property in the Dixon neighborhood, move temporarily into office space that is less expensive but further from our campuses and then return to the Uptown campus, place new modular buildings at the Dixon campus.  Factors to consider are funding, medium and long term organizational goals, available facilities in the city.

C.

Committee check ins

Governance
  • We are seeking new Board members with expertise in construction, architecture, or city planning.  We also need to add at least one more parent to our Board.

Bylaws
  • Two proposed policies were presented.  "Proposed ISL Policy Regarding Opioid Antagonists" and "Proposed addition to ISL Board of Trustees Policy Manual" were reviewed and recommended for consideration by the full Board, pending minor revision to the latter policy.

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 7:14 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
S. Chapman